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Waze gets a big visual update with a focus on driver emotions

Crowdsourced navigation platform Waze, which is owned by Google and yet remains a separate, but intertwined product relative to Google Maps, just got one of its biggest UI and design overhauls ever.

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Artlist raises $48M led by KKR for its royalty-free music, video and sound effect library

Like it or loathe it, video has proven to be the most engaging of all mediums across the web, and today a company out of Israel called Artlist — which provides royalty-free libraries of music, s

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Starbucks to pause paid ads across social media in boycott campaign

Starbucks Corp will pause advertising on all social media platforms as it explores the best ways to help stop the spread of hate speech, the company said in a statement on Sunday.The company will

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Masked and distanced, Spanish PM Sanchez hits the campaign trail

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wore a mask and avoided shaking hands with supporters at a political rally on Sunday as the coronavirus pandemic prompted changes t

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Global Pride reaches new communities online

Pride, color, music, celebration, protest.These words are now synonymous with the annual festival of LGBT liberation, held in many countries around Europe, and varying in length, from a day to a whol

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This Week in Apps: WWDC20 highlights, App Store antitrust issues, tech giants clone TikTok

span class=featured__span-first-words">Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.

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K-pop band Blackpink sets new record of YouTube's biggest premiere

South Korean K-pop girls' group Blackpink has smashed a new record with their comeback hit "How You Like That," which has become the biggest music video premiere on YouTube.The single, highly expe

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Factbox: More U.S. companies join Facebook ad boycott

A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. /Reuters A handful of U.S. companies have pulled advertising from Facebook Inc in support of

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Only 12 hours left to apply for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2020

It’s now o’clock, founders. A mere 12 hours stands between you and a chance to compete in Startup Battlefield and launch your pre-Series A startup during Disrupt 2020 — in front of the world’s influen

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Unilever and Verizon are the latest companies to pull their money from Facebook

Advertiser momentum against Facebook’s content and moentization policies continues to grow.Last night, Verizon (which owns TechCrunch) said it will be pausing advertis

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Indian edtech giant Byju’s in talks to acquire Doubtnut for more than $125M

Byju’s is in advanced stages of talks to acquire Doubtnut, a two-year-old education learning app, as the Indian edtech giant looks to expand its reach in smaller cities and towns in the world’s second

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CGTNBizTalk: Selling luxury in a Kering World

04:40 Kering, founded in 1963, is one of the largest luxury groups in the world. It is the home of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga and many more.Revenue at Kering

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Karat launches a credit card for online creators

Karat is a new startup promising to build better banking products for the creators who make a living on YouTube, Instagram, Twitch and other online platforms. Today it’s unveiling its first prod

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YouTube’s latest experiment is a TikTok rival focused on 15-second videos

YouTube is taking direct aim at TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday it’s beginning to test a new feature on mobile that will allow users to record 15-second long multi-segment videos. Tha

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TikTok launches TikTok For Business for marketers, takes on Snapchat with new AR ads

TikTok is announcing to advertisers that it’s open for business. The company is today officially introducing a new brand and platform called “TikTok For Business” that will serve as

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Scientists prove aliens could use black holes for energy

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have performed an experiment expending negative energy, and thus gaining positive energy.

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Airtable’s Howie Liu to join us at Disrupt 2020

Collaborative enterprise software is absolutely booming, and Airtable is riding that wave in a very real way.The company, which offers a flexible, collaborative database product, has raised more than